Chapter 281 (Thanks to the three brothers who read the bookworm, root 087 class, and acxld for a bunch of monthly tickets.) ）

The Ming army was still in the excitement of victory, this battle was enjoyable, killed two thousand Tartar cavalry, and almost chased in front of the Tartar camp, if it was not for the order to retreat, the red-eyed guys would rush directly into the Tartar camp with a hot brain.

But just after withdrawing from the formation, everyone was still chattering with a pond of water ducks, comparing with each other the great achievements of killing a few Tartars, and then they heard the horn in the Tartar camp sounding, and everyone stretched their necks to look, but saw the Tartar cavalry pouring out of the camp all over the place, and slowly marched towards the south after reorganizing the formation.

"It's not good, the Tartars are going to counterattack." Several lieutenants shouted.

Zhang Lun frowned, and shouted loudly: "The firecrackers are lined up to prepare, and the cavalry is on the horse and ready to fight." ”

Song Nan was also taken aback, the Tartars seemed to be provoked, and the bald and fierce attacked regardless of it, this is a big trouble, in terms of strength, the Ming army is not an opponent, the gap in the number of cavalry on both sides is nearly three times, even if the battle just now annihilated two thousand Tartar cavalry, the number of Tartars is still 13,000 people, how can it be resisted by three thousand cavalry and two thousand remnants of Ulzhou.

But now, we can only fight hard, but we have to pay attention to the battle formation, in the face of the Tartars' all-army assault, if we directly meet the battle, I am afraid that it will be broken up in an instant and defeated.

"Little grandfather, Lord Jiang, it's really unwise to meet the enemy head-on, we just need to drag the Tartars and wait for the reinforcements to arrive, we don't have to meet the enemy directly." Song Nan shouted.

Zhang Lun frowned and said, "How to delay?" As soon as the Tartars enter the sprint distance, they will come like a sea of mountains, and it is too late to turn around and evacuate, and the consequences of being chased by the cavalry are terrible, you have not seen it. ”

Song Nan thought for a while, turned to Jiang Bin and said: "Lord Jiang, my brother spoke abruptly, but this battle may require the sacrifice of the Ulzhou soldiers, the Ulzhou Wei is already a remnant soldier, and the main force of the battle still needs to be the Fenwu Battalion and the Shenji Battalion...... Hey......"

Jiang Bin's face was as pale as earth, he understood what Song Nan meant, Song Nan meant that the Ulzhou soldiers would be cannon fodder immediately, the infantry in Ulzhou was not very practical in this kind of cavalry battle, and it may be the best use to go forward as cannon fodder, but after all, it was Jiang Bin's subordinates who had followed Jiang Bin for many years, and this battle was all wiped out, so how could Jiang Bin stand it; Besides, Song Nan brought it up nakedly, which also made Jiang Bin unbearable, how to say that Song Nan was also born in Ulzhou Wei, how could he personally send the Ulzhou guards and horses to hell.

Jiang Bin gasped and snorted incitingly, his hands stirring together and pinching the joints of the knots, but he didn't speak.

Song Nan sighed and said, "That's it, when I didn't say it, I couldn't bear to do it." ”

Jiang Bin slowly shook his head and said: "Brother, I don't blame you, even if you don't bring it up, I also have this thought in my heart, since the Tartars are determined to attack, they can't hide, if they can't drag the Tartar cavalry to cover the retreat of the little grandfather's soldiers and horses, I'm afraid that even the soldiers and horses of the Beijing camp will not be spared." But...... I'm always ...... It's always hard to talk about. ”

Song Nan patted Jiang Bin on the shoulder and sighed: "Brother Jiang, I know how you feel about the Ulzhou Guards and Horses were brought out by you personally, they have a deep relationship with you, and I was also born in Ulzhou Guard, so I don't want to do this." But we have to think about the overall situation, we are used to fighting and killing people, but what we have to do is to exchange the smallest loss for the greatest victory, which is a wise move. ”

Jiang Bin was silent, and Song Nan said in a low voice: "I know that this move is a bit cold-blooded, you must be afraid of being scolded afterwards, but don't worry, I will always stand on your side, and I will also fight with Ulzhou Wei's brothers to the end, and I will die together, this is what I can do personally." Even you and I don't matter if we live or die in this big battle. It's up to you to decide. ”

Jiang Bin's body shook, raised his eyes to look at Song Nan, only to see Song Nan turn over and dismount, slowly pull out the long knife at his waist, throw aside the waist brocade guard waist card, pick up a broken ordinary armor from the ground and put it on: "From now on, I, Song Nan, am a soldier under Lord Jiang, I will swear to kill the enemy and live and die with the brothers of Ulzhou Wei." ”

"Brother Song......!" Jiang Bin shouted with a trembling voice.

"Song Nan, no, I don't agree, the emperor wants me to save you well, how can you do this?" The little grandfather shouted.

Song Nan smiled and said: "This battle is actually not about avenging the emperor and regaining face, defeating the main force of the Tartars, and ensuring the peace of the border towns on the front line of Xuanfu in Ulzhou for ten or even twenty years. ”

Jiang Bin gritted his teeth and shouted: "Good brother, let's be brothers again in the next life, I decided, desperately block the Tartars, the brothers of Ulzhou Wei have never been cowards." ”

Zhang Lun jumped off the horse and pulled Song Nan aside and whispered, "You are crazy, why do you want to die?" You...... What are you going to do with my sister? ”

Song Nan smiled and said, "Little grandfather, if I die, wouldn't it just fulfill my husband's wish?" ”

Zhang Lun scolded: "If you don't know how to lift, you will die if you do it, it's really stupid." ”

Song Nan said with a smile: "The little grandfather cares about me, Song Nan is grateful, in fact, it is not as strict as you think, our life and death are in the hands of your little grandfather, if the follow-up reinforcements are really about to arrive as the little grandfather said, we will not die at all, unless the little grandfather's soldiers and horses walk on the road to enjoy the scenery, then we will really be wiped out." ”

Zhang Lun was dumbfounded: "If there is an accident, how can I guarantee that they will arrive in time?" ”

Song Nan shook his head and said: "This is wrong, you are the commander of the two battalions, you are not sure, what kind of battle are you still fighting?" Little grandfather, if the soldiers and horses of Ulzhou are completely wiped out, but you can't use this to inflict heavy damage on the Tartars, these thousands of lives are your responsibility; If the Tartar soldiers can be defeated and the dead get their place, if you and I and Jiang Bin can survive, who can compare this credit? ”

Zhang Lun took a breath and nodded slowly: "Okay, the matter has come to this, there is only one fight; I order a thousand musketeers from the Shenji Battalion to follow you, and my cavalry is about to retreat, so be very careful, don't give your life in vain. ”

Song Nan nodded and said: "Little Grandpa Xie, Little Grandpa hurriedly sent someone to urge backup, if it can't arrive for half an hour, Little Grandpa will lead the cavalry to retreat quickly, if I die, go back and tell Sister Sù Ling, and say that I, Song Nan, have failed her, and I will compensate her in the next life." ”

Zhang Lun stomped his feet, turned over his horse, and issued a series of orders, one thousand Shenji battalion cavalry were under the command of Song Nan, and the remaining more than 2,000 cavalry of the Fenwu battalion retreated rapidly, and the two thousand infantry in Ulzhou were each equipped with a set of bows and arrows, and set up a formation in the valley.

In order to shoot from a distance without interruption, all platoons are in three rows, borrowing from the three-stage strike tactics of the Shenji Battalion, where the archers stand in a staggered row every ten steps and the front row shoots backwards and is replenished by the rear row, while the musketeers pass the reload without moving forward and backward.

At the same time, everyone dragged together the corpses of people, horses, corpses, weapons, armor and other messy things scattered everywhere on the battlefield to form a simple barrier, which made it more difficult for the Tartar cavalry to attack; After this qiē preparation, the front team of the Tartar soldiers was already outside the Lixu, and entered the distance of the cavalry charge.

Bald Meng can divide all the cavalry into five waves, each wave of two thousand to three thousand people, this is also the normal tactic of cavalry charge, the enraged Bald Meng can send all his troops, he wants to use wave after wave of charges to step the Ming army in front of him into meat sauce, even he himself is wearing armor and leading his two thousand personal guard cavalry in the third wave, after the first two waves of soldiers and horses crushed the Ming army, he has to personally step on the corpse of the Ming army to harvest.

At noon, the valley was as hot as a big oven, the Tatar cavalry and the Ming army were thinking about each other, the air seemed to freeze, and there was silence in all directions, and a dozen vultures circled down from the sky and fell to the grass between the two armies to peck at the flesh on the ground.

Suddenly, the low and long horn sound echoed in the valley, the vultures were frightened and rushed to the sky, at the same time the Tartar cavalry slowly began to move, with the sound of the waw wow shout that resounded through the world, the speed of the Tatar cavalry became faster and faster, the sound of hooves was like thunder, shaking people's hearts and trembling, the dust raised by the horses' hooves was like a yellow sky net towards the Ming army position, all the Ming soldiers were short of breath, their pupils contracted, and the hands holding the blades were also drenched in fine sweat.

Song Nan and Jiang Bin rode their horses and galloped left and right in front of the queue, the two of them raised their swords and cheered up the soldiers loudly, Jiang Bin and Song Nan took the lead, which somewhat eased the tension between the Ulzhou soldiers and the 1,000 firefighters of the Shenji Battalion; The generals were brave and fearless, which was a great encouragement to the morale of the soldiers.

Almost in the blink of an eye, the Tartar cavalry had reached a hundred paces away, Song Nan pursed his lips and stood on his horse, the flickering brilliance of the scimitar in the hand of the Tartar soldier stabbed his eyes, Song Nan squinted, the embroidered spring knife in his hand slashed violently, and shouted: "Release the arrow!" ”

With this order, the feathered arrows in the hands of the Ming soldiers buzzed into a ball, accompanied by the sound of a poisonous snake breaking through the air, and thousands of feathered arrows fell into the Tartar cavalry formation across a distance of a hundred paces; At the same time, the firecrackers in the hands of the firecrackers also began to erupt into a roar, and the dense lead sand wrapped in yellow smoke covered the sky and shot towards the Tartar cavalry.

The fallen Tartars and the sieve-beaten horses began to roll along the turf, the muffled grunt of broken tendons and the neighing of war horses filled the battlefield, and the cavalry behind did not slow down, and the fallen and undead Tartar soldiers did not have time to rejoice, and the intestines trampled by the rolling hooves of the horses behind them were miserable.

The sound of bows and arrows and firearms is continuous, as the distance approaches, the bow and arrow from the throw is a flat shot, although the deterrent effect of the Tartar cavalry in the back row is reduced, but the cavalry rushing in the front row can be unlucky, the strong arrows and the body basically have no chance of survival, and every person who falls, at least two or three arrows are inserted in the body, by their forward momentum, each arrow is a penetrating wound, as if swooping towards the sharp blade stabbed at themselves, the middle arrow will fall off the horse.

In just a few rounds of baptism of bows and arrows and firearms, the first wave of 3,000 Tartar cavalry charged with less than half of them killed and wounded, hundreds of them killed, and hundreds of others gritted their teeth with arrows and lead sand embedded in their bodies.

Although the powerful sniper hit the Tartar cavalry hard, it could not stop the surging momentum of the cavalry, and more than 2,000 lucky people dodged the attack of arrow rain and lead sand, and put the horse's hooves on the chests of the Ming soldiers.

The fragile and simple defense line of corpses and debris was vulnerable, and the cavalry was like a heavy hammer bombarded on tofu, which exploded after impact, knocking the corpses and debris away along with the Ming army behind the defensive line; The war horse could not stand on its footing, and rolled and swirled and swept across the ground, marking a strange huge trace, sweeping down a Ming army.